Michael Pyne added support for album art to Juk‘s D-Bus interface, and modified the now playing dataengine to get this artwork. The dataengine already supported getting artwork from MPRIS-enabled players, and Amarok has provided album artwork over MPRIS for a while.

So I’ve now added the display of album artwork to the now playing widget:

The Now Playing widget with album artwork

Naturally, this disappears (and the text moves over to the left) when there is no album artwork available, and the image resizes to be as tall as the text when you resize the widget.

Oh, and I fixed the scrollbars to work when you use the mouse wheel on them. This fix will be in the next release of 4.2 (although the artwork won’t be).

Now I need to improve the functionality of the widget when it’s on the panel. And any help in generally making the widget prettier would be most welcome. I really don’t like the scrollbars, and the album art needs a frame.